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Ziyech should be replaced. Where is Mount ?

Juve awful lost 1-2 to Sassuolo. Morata subbed early.

Never mind, we are through and Southampton played well yesterday. Mount should never be allowed to take a pen again. The Southampton goalkeeper had moved to the left three hours before Mount took the shot and he aimed it straight at him !

We can win six easy pts against Norwich and Newcastle.

Bodo Glimt a team of fishermen and local craftsmen demolished Jose. But Roma played with 9 subs. I counted them. From the match against Juve last weekend only two players played again on Thursday. The keeper Patricio and the defender Ibanez. Mourinho's excuse was that "he does n't have a squad" - i.e. his substitute players useless. He says "I am the one to blame for using them but they 're not good enough for this club". As a result I don't know what is the situation now in Rome. They are at home against Napoli tomorrow, but what is the morale ? Is Jose ready for yet another departure ?

Brentford are the giant killers. My pet team in the betting.

First in the table now. But against giant killers Brentford we are going to lose.

Possession was 80-20 in favour of Chels, on their ground. I don't rate this Juve above Everton or West Ham. But they were lucky and we could not create scoring opportunities. The match was lost by the attackers.

Alonso / Chilwell are not wingers. They can carry the ball, good shooters, good for free kicks. But they bear no relation to wingers. Hudson Odoi is a winger (well, he tried what he could) but not Alonso. As for a "number 10" to feed Lukaku, must be someone like Essien and we don't have one such (a back to form Mount possibly).

They were scoring against Maltese teams. Here it's different and against Juve. But we are too predictable. Lukaku too. He is more productive, he cannot miss the amount of chances as Werner or Morata were missing, but our movements when near the box have remained the same.

They got tired toward the end that's why we created chances (like with City). Havertz was unlucky the last time but not the one before - he should have scored. Against Europe's best defenders our frontline was practically useless.

Manure one down. Come on Chelsea !

We should make more shots from outside the area. Mybe they are hopeless but it will make them open their line to catch the player who appears to be in shooting position.

67% possession but no chances created. Two almost costly mistakes by Kovacic. Their left flank appears to be weak but Alonso cannot penetrate (someone like Willian was needed there).

For Juve it's the worst season in living memory so far. We should beat them. I was happy with Pep losing 2-0 but PSG is a force we are going to play against sooner or later. The rest appear non entities, bar Ajax. Ajax went ahead 2-0 at halft time against Besiktas but in the second half they all went to sleep.

CFC board are notorious crab-sters.

Azpi says we could n't find the spaces. Also during the transfer window CFC spent only 15 m. 110 we paid for Lukaku - 95 we got from Abraham, Zouma, Tomori ... = 15. The previous summer we were banned and the one before we got Morata-Pato. Overall I can't say I 'm satisfied.

They held back a bit after the goal, also got tired. But could we with a more attacking formation have challenged them in the first half ? That's a conjecture. Anyway as I said City is one of only three teams in the world that can take on Chelsea and we really needed some more new blood in the summer - not just Rom.

Oliver was a sort of 12th player for Citeh, but they did outplay us. I did n't like this more than I did n't like the 0-1 defeat. It means they have a faster moving squad. If you look at the facts we still have the Lampard wall team minus Lampard plus Tuchel plus Rom. More is needed and after all our opponents are Citeh, PSG and Bayern. It's not ... United as some people suggest or Villa.

With such players It's a question of opportunity under the circumstances. Look at this historic goal: The reds had 90-10 possession but who else might have scored for the yellows ?

We beat them three times in a row. We beat them 1-0 in the final - did n't smash them and they did show the qualities you say. So no one was asleep and we did n't think City is easy prey for CFC. Today Tuchel's system was to give them territory and strike towards the end, but they did manage to score the billiard ball goal (it was just like Kante's against Spurs).

Lukaku looked a constant threat. Who do you think might have scored ? Ziyetch ?

The Pep team is strong, they dominated the game and they were luckier this time. They had chances for the 2-0 as we changed to offensive formation but they got tired the last half hour and we could n't capitalize.

Mou started explosively. The last two against Verona and Udineze it was the usual boring Mou. Lost to Verona, won yesterday but played louse. Abraham scored the goal (a clever tap in).

Not that, I mean without the deflection. It looked like it was going in.